The Fifth Annual Bench Bar Conference
Karen Kimmey, panelist, "Using experts in the Online World"
The Bankers Club, 555 California Street, 52nd Floor
San Francisco

For more information and to register visit:
www.sfbar.org

Amarra Lee, panelist, "Learning the Realities of Practicing Law in a Law Firm", presented by The Bar Association of San Francisco and the Association of Business Trial Lawyers: Leadership Development Committee.
San Francisco, CA

Amarra Lee, panelist, "Keeping It Real: Minority Attorneys Speak About Life After Law School."
UC Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco

Doug Young & Stephanie Skaff, speakers, The Litigation Section of The Bar Association of SF, "Securities Litigation After Stoneridge: Are Lawsuits Against Investment Banks, Accountants, and Other Third Party Actors Now Dead?"
BASF Conference Center, San Francisco, CA

Karen Kimmey, moderator, California Superior Court Practice: Do's and Don'ts - State Court Research Attorneys Teach the Do's and Don'ts
Grand Hyatt San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Tom Mayhew & Brandon Wisoff, speakers, "17200, 17500 and The CLRA"
Westin Market Street Hotel, San Francisco

Nan Joesten, moderator, California Superior Court Practice: Do's and Don'ts - State Court Research Attorneys Teach the Do's and Don'ts
Oakland Marriott City Center, Oakland, CA

Stephanie Skaff, moderator, California Superior Court Practice: Do's and Don'ts - State Court Research Attorneys Teach the Do's and Don'ts
Oakland Marriott City Center, Oakland, CA

Thomas Mayhew and Brandon Wisoff, Panelists, "Consumer Class Actions: California's Unfair Competition Law"
3rd Annual CLE International Class Actions Conference
Los Angeles, CA

Richard Van Duzer, Presenter, "Dispute Avoidance and Resolution" 
Wine Industy Education Series hosted by
Farella Braun + Martel LLP and Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Alliance
Sonoma, CA

Farella Braun + Martel's James Mann present "Let's Talk Trash: Or how to stop your old computers from becoming a plaintiff's lawyer's treasure," to the Corporate Law Department Section and the Environmental Law Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco.

Topics:
Important exemptions from hazardous waste control laws have recently expired.  Businesses, large and small, with trash as common as old computers, florescent light bulbs, and TV's may be subject to hazardous waste regulation. The seminar will address:

• California's rules for "e-waste" and what your company needs to do to comply with them
• Related computer disposal issues: Data "wiping," spoliation of evidence, and software license compliance

On February 10, 2006, Thomas Mayhew and Brandon Wisoff will present the session "Consumer Class Actions: California's Unfair Competition Law and Consumer Legal Remedies Act."  Steven Lowenthal will present the session "Reaching an Acceptable Resolution: Trial Issues and Settlement Concerns." The conference is over February 9-10, 2006 at the Fairmont in San Francisco, CA.

Intellectual Property Partner Bob Sloss and Business Litigation Associate James Mann will lead a seminar on the subject "Needle in a Haystack: What You Need To Know About Electronic Discovery" at the Garden Court Hotel in Palo Alto, CA.

Partner Andrew Leibnitz was a presenter on the topic entitled "How To Tell The Story:  Effective Trial Techniques -- Improving Jury Comprehension", at the Meritas Litigation Section annual meeting in Washington D.C.

Partners Karen Kimmey and James Morando to serve on as panelists at the Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB) program "Mediation and Arbitration Practice: Skills for the Successful Advocate" being held at the PLI California Center in San Francisco.

James Morando will moderate a panel of corporate counsel attorneys addressing the business, legal challenges and selection of outside counsel.  Tampa Bay, FL.

James Morando will be serving as a moderator for a "reverse" coporate counsel program at the Meritas Annual Meeting in Tampa in which corporate counsel will give their thoughts on effective marketing strategies for lawyers to reach corporate counsel.

Partner Neil Goteiner will serve on the panel titled "Electronic Evidence Discovery - Effective Tool or Weapon of Mass Destruction" at The Commercial Bar Association 2005 North American Meeting being held at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco.

Partner Douglas Young will be a speaker on the topic "Corporate America Under Fire" at the ABTL Annual Meeting.

Brandon Wisoff and Tom Mayhew will lead a discussion on "17200 Defense and Remedy Litigation" at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco.

Thomas Mayhew will speak at a NBI program at the Oakland Airport Hilton entitled "A Practical Guide to Federal Court Rules and Procedures in California."

Brandon Wisoff  and Thomas Mayhew will lead a discussion on "Strategies in Defending a 17200 Action" at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

December 8, 2003, Brandon Wisoff, "Strategies in Defending a Section 17200 Action," California Section 17200 Conference, 11:30 a.m., Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, CA